The Ever-Expanding Scope of Animation Historiography: A Discussion of Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods

Accounting for animation’s pervasiveness, heterogeneity and intermediality, this article reflects conceptions of animation historiography. It brings together contemporary perspectives methods in the research history/historiography, considers tangible approaches outside studies. Particular attention is paid to materials aspects that are overlooked non-canonical. The authors conceptualize historiography shape a rhizome, enabling better understanding relations between canonical fringes, enriching dialogue various disciplines, actors institutions writing histories animation. Following look at current state debate about history/histories studies, surveys pertinent debates film art history media history. then discusses historical performance studies science, both concerned with fields where often marginalized, as well animation-related on motion graphics useful cinema, themselves under-researched topics, reconceptualize Media archaeology, its methodology, will be addressed repeatedly from different disciplines areas. conceived an ‘open paper’, understood invitation further discuss metalevel.